Coast of Barbary- Forget-Me-Not Songster (PA-NY) c. 1844 (Barry C.)
[This Forget-me-not Songster was published by Turner and Fisher, circa 1844-50, p. 215. It has the same text as the version in Jack Tar's Songster - Page 24, 1851 and is probably based on Deming's c. 1831 version. it was reprinted by Barry in 1929 as his version C.
R. Matteson 2014]
C. Coast of Barbary. Forget-me-not Songster, published Turner and Fisher, 15 North Sixth St., Philadelphia, 70 Chatham St., New York; circa 1844-50, p. 215.
Two lofty ships from Old England came,
Blow high and blow low and so sailed we;
One was the Prince of Luther and the other Prince of Wales,
Cruising down on the Coast of Barbary.
Up aloft, up aloft, the jolly boatswain cries,
Blow high and blow low, and so sailed we;
Look ahead, look astern, look the weather and the lee,
Look along down on the coast of Barbary.
There's none upon the stern, there's none upon the lee,
Blow high and blow low, and so sailed we:
But there is a ship at windward, a lofty ship at sea,
Cruising down on the coast of Barbary.
Oh hail, Oh hail, that lofty tall ship,
Blow high and blow low, and so sailed we;
Are you a man of war, or a privateer, said she,
Cruising down on the coast of Barbary.
Oh I am no man of war, or privateer, said she,
Blow high and blow low, and so sailed we;
But I am a jolly pirate, a looking for my fee,
Cruising down on the coast of Barbary.
Broad side and broad side, a long time they lay,
Blow high and blow low, and so sailed we;
Till the Prince of Luther shot all the pirate's masts away,
Cruising down on the coast of Barbary.
Oh quarters! Oh quarters! these pirate's did cry;
Blow high and blow low, and so sailed we;
But the quarters that we gave them, we sank them in the sea,
Cruising down on the coast of Barbary.